Hello everyone, welcome back to Keep Productive YouTube channel on today's feature
We're taking a look and a brand new Dropbox application. Now Dropbox have released a new desktop edition
That is currently in almost like a roll out stage. However, it is a brand new take on Dropbox
They're aiming to unify
Experiences for documents for tasks and also as almost like your hub for your team. So today's feature
We're gonna take a look at Dropbox
We're going to start with a few of the key facts and information
And then actually dive over to the laptop to dive into the desktop experience
So let's start with the fun stuff now drew Houston, who is the Dropbox CEO announced this?
About this updated user interface. It's a big overhaul. We're really excited about it. It's been a big morning
We've launched the biggest change we've ever made to our product
it involves the drop arc experience from a folder full of files to a living team workspace where you can have not just files but
Any kind of cloud content? So geez sweet things like Google Google Docs sheets and slides and obviously Dropbox is aiming to
Unify their application. They actually touch on like three core goals that they try and solve now
This isn't brand-new news from Dropbox 74 week ago
We covered it on our news segment on the blog that Dropbox actually launched a new pricing system with Dropbox plus
Adding two more dollars per month making it 11 dollars 99
But it also I believe doubled the storage amount which makes it a lot more effective for teams
Now for those who don't know Dropbox is being used by 13 million users worldwide
business users that is and is distributed apparently across
400,000 teams, which is quite a large amount
Now, of course for those who knew Dropbox is a pretty powerful cloud storage platform
And I think one of the things they're trying to solve with this edition is try to unify
applications like slack like Trello and Atlassian experiences and
also the things that you do day-to-day like on Google Drive and other such platforms like Microsoft Word
They're trying to bring it into this one application
So guys we're gonna jump over to the Mac and dive into what the desktop experience offers just before we dive in big
Thanks to bear for being sponsor here on key productive for June 20 tene. Let's jump over to Dropbox
So here we are with the new Dropbox and as you can imagine
You can opt into this new desktop experience for both Windows and Mac by using the opt-in link in description
This will help you to basically get access to the new addition
I had to actually download it from scratch because I actually didn't have Dropbox installed previously
so to start nothing in terms of these sync is
changed so for example, if you go to the finder and you go up to the top you can see that obviously you've got
Dropbox and is it part of your favorites?
And obviously you can still upload everything like you would normally and it would essentially be backed up on Dropbox
And of course the desktop edition actually allows you to upload photos and things like that as you can imagine
It's really easy to do. So now I do not have a paid account
I have a free account, which I believe limits me quite a lot
But as you can imagine I'm signed in on it and obviously I won't get the full
I believe it's two terabytes when you actually get the pro plan or plus plan
Then you've got the pro plan, but I'll include the pricing in description below. But let's just dive into this video
so draw boxes aim is
Essentially with this application to tidy up your workflow
now what it wants to do is essentially bring in most of the sort of doing sign of work like the
Documents and be able to communication around documents together. So the first thing they want to do is to bring together
Messy files and the way they want to do that is by creating
A bit of an organized structure and as you can see, I don't use Dropbox
So my sort of organization of my Dropbox account is pretty messy
But what you can do to get started is begin dragging this
So for example, you want to have a starred folder you can drag it up here and it will appear on the pin sidebar
But you can also, you know have it in this sort of folder system
Which is quite nice and if I wanted to see for example
What's inside the chrome productivity module I can see all of the relevant details here?
Now if you go about pinning the item, for example, I want to pin it to the top of the folder
That's quite helpful if I you know find a routine use for it
if I go out of this you can see it pins to the
almost sort of drop mops panel that you have which is quite helpful and the other thing they want to try and do with
sort of cleaning up the mess is
Notification, so at the top of the page you get what's called drop box notifications from here
You can search drop box and you can actually go ahead and create a brand new area will dive into that in a moment
And also you can access Dropbox paper, which is currently still only available through web
I thought during this release they might make a new edition of it and also through new notifications
You can start to see you know sharing abilities
So the most recent and what's up to date and also you can begin to start modifying
Some of the files you've already created which is really handy. You can also see a sort of list of activities so team activities
I don't have anyone in a team. But if you have people there you can also see direct notifications
So which ones you've read and for example, you know, you can tick them off and mark them as read and go through there
So that's quite an easy way to do it
So if you're looking for a sort of neat notification folder system that's going to be really helpful
Now you can go ahead and the second thing they sort of mainly focus on is
Connecting with slack G sweet and other applications now as you can imagine
Let's start with the other applications as go from the back
This is the other applications access in a moment is shortcuts
If you don't have anything installed, for example
It just took basically the last notion team page I went on and now asked me to create a URL sort of shortcut
So I can say this is the notion team home and if I go ahead and click create
what it will do is it will go ahead and create this sort of like
Like easy access web file. It's actually a shortcut
But for example if I wanted to pin it up here, maybe I believe it should do it the app in there we go
So the pin actually allows you to open it really quickly and it can access that notion folder really easily
So that's one of the great ways that you can access other applications
obviously if I want to connector and other applications like slack, then I could go here and
Connect the application so we can do range of different things
Okay, so obviously when you've got those connected
all you have to do is go into a certain file that you might want to share and
Double tap and actually press share in because if you press share, it would just bring up the regular Dropbox settings
So obviously being able to share the the file etc
But if I want to share in I can share it directly to slack and this little sort of widget comes up here now
I can share it directly with for example, Alice
I could just directly send it to her or into a certain channel in this case
So if I wanted to as well, I could share it in zoom and this automatically will start a zoom
Presentation so as you can see you can add your zoom meeting ID in here and begin presenting through the web application
I'm not sure at the moment whether it has the ability to connect with the zoom applications that's already available on Macs
So going back to the Dropbox area
You can also go ahead and create new areas like folders shortcuts and also Microsoft Word Excel and PowerPoint
and all this does is it simply launches the native application for each and
Gets you started and the same with dark sheets and slides
You when you create a Google Doc as you can see here
It will load up the chrome edition of your browser and whatever Google account you're logged in
It will obviously begin to create that file. Now you may be able to see that down here
You can see a Google document has been created and you can access it any can point
Rename it and check the version history as well. And as you can see here, it will land inside of this
So being able to utilize
The Google Drive and obviously be able to communicate all of these applications in one place is a pretty handy experience
although I did think it would be a little bit more advanced than this for example having like a a
Native way to be able to write up Google Documents. But again, it's still fine to load up the web browser
so the final piece of the puzzle that drops wants you to know at least is is actually the sort of to do pinning and
organization so with each of the pages that you create for example, if I went into here I can have this sort of like
Description space but I can not only add notes I can add lists
I can add a bullet lists numbered lists and even to do's and even the mention people here now, for example
there are a few suggestions that can get you going about how you want to organize that but in this case, it could be like
Okay tag Karl
Shall we continue to plan this one and
Obviously Karl will get tagged now if below
I wanted to add a few bullet points I could get going and I could even add a few to dues if I want to
Do to be able to add a little bit more detail
I'm gonna take this off because Karl will actually think I've messaged him in something now up here as well
Of course, you can pin the most relevant features. So for example if I wanted to pin
all of this to the top
so pin it there you can quick access there and
obviously you can modify all of the links and relevant information up here because it can be quite a hub for your team if you
Begin to start organizing everything there
So one of the things you can do is you can go up to the top and start
Searching for relevant files and folders and that obviously spans across your word and also other access
So for example if I typed in like notion
then I can see all of the paper the images the files that I've stored in file and dropbox paper Dropbox in general and
Even Google Drive then I've uploaded to Dropbox
so anything that you upload and create through Dropbox now will obviously be searchable which helps say for example if I typed in like Google
As you can see here, I would didn't bring that one up, but I let a total downward and untitled
So it should appear so there we go. It appears in the Google Docs area
So every new Google Doc you need to create through this application?
So some of the additional things up here
You can obviously find out all the information about the file and be able to check in on version
History and you can even open it with a certain application
Um, if that's something that you want to do, I'd quite like that you can open up and go and navigate backwards
But in general this application is pretty easy to do
so the new features are included in all Dropbox plans both free and paid and there is no
Inclusion challenge, so that's one of the benefits to it again
I see this as a obviously I don't use it in a team content
but I see this is a way for Dropbox to be able to unify a market and
With more additional integrations with their lassi on which they're planning on. I think this is going to be a nice addition
So guys, I hope you enjoyed B review of Dropbox as you can imagine Dropbox is pretty powerful cloud platform
We do a lot more features like this and will we do more touching on tools?
Business tools that you can use in your daily routine
so if you're brand new here hit subscribe become a subscriber to keep productive and if you haven't yet checked out its all of our
other courses you can find our courses link below if you want to go deeper with an application and we guys a big
Thank you. I will see you guys in a future video. Make sure have a great week key productive
I'll see you guys very very soon Cheers